Posts Tagged ‘sciences’

Oogenesis is the formation of the ovum (female sex cells), which begin as hundreds of thousands of oogonia (stem cells) in the fetal ovaries. During prenatal development, the oogonia grow to become primary oocytes that contain 46 chromosomes. Each oocyte undergoes meiosis; at birth, oocytes are in prophase. During this first meiotic division, oocytes enter a resting phase that lasts until the oocyte resumes development during the ovarian cycle (puberty). The female is born with all the oocytes she will ever have.

Besides cleaning our room, I also clean my blog (at least once in a while). Hope it is more useful and personal to you, my dear friends. Thank you so much for supporting me.

September 2, 2008: I like Yade chocolate very much, very tasty =p Bought it when visiting Norway.
November 22, 2008: Do what you love. Love what you do.
November 18, 2008: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; those who seek find; and to those who knock, the door will be opened.” Darling shared that with me at the beginning of my turbulent PhD study.

Salaries can be slightly higher than average for industry postdocs; while academic salaries average $40,000 for US postdocs, according to the NSF, Genentech postdocs start at $49,000 and Schering-Plough postdocs start at $45,000.

There are industry postdoc detractors. Bill Lindstaedt, director of the career and professional development office at University of California, San Francisco, says that some industry postdoc positions can trap PhDs in “cheap scientist positions.” The work is grueling, without much opportunity to publish, and the focus is less on the scientist-in-training and more on the company’s pipeline.

While industry postdocs are often considered “a one-way street,” says Lindstaedt, because few return to academia, others, such as Novartis’ Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship, launched in 2004, are designed to keep connections to academia strong. The fellows are required to find a second mentor in academia. Rajesh Ranganathan, director of the educational office at Novartis, says that asking postdocs to pursue projects of their choosing enriches the company’s scientific research, while the connection with university faculty opens the door for fellows to return to academia as leaders.

As for pharmaceutical ordinarius
Chemistry, Chair for
pharmacy and as head of the
pharmaceutical institutes.
1950 Recipient of rich stone for the professor
exploration of the adrenal
hormone the Nobel for medicine

Reichstein means Rich Stone.
Well, the house is in Basel, Switzerland.

@~@ Scientifc pursuits
磨刀不误砍柴工。It means it is not a waste of time to sharpen your knife before chopping the wood. There is also another quite similar saying: 工欲善其事，必先利其器, meaning “a worker needs to improve his tools before getting hands on his job”. (Thanks to Y.L. for sharing).
International exposure is v. impt in education, to helps us to break away from the impression that there is only 1 way of doing things. We also become more receptive to new ideas & perspectives.

@~@ Artistic pursuits
Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality. Unknown.

@~@ Miscellaneous (sorry, I was too lazy to cluster them)
Can you live with your lover? Well, we can live with many people.
Can you live without your lover? Then, he is indeed your soul mate.

“Positive people have higher self esteem. This makes them display positive behaviour which makes others like them more.”

There is something nice about everyone, its just that we might not have seen it yet.

In the room was a cub reporter for the student newspaer who reported Don Munro’s statements but recorded them erroneously or out of-context.

Almost every scientist wishes to SUCCEED and make an important contribution to his or her field.

As someone with many titles (professor, advisor, mentor, wife, mother) but only 24 hours a day, Ruth Douglas Miller (Kansas State U) realizes that she cannot be number one in each of her roles.

Dun Munro found that students and courses needed his time, and that the time constraints at a small college do not generally allow one to do world class research. Munro finally decided to make his contribution in smaller things, e.g. studying the ethics of genetic engineering, participating in summer research project, and in sharing his life and time with students.

For each individual, God has given different sets of priorities, gifts, and talents.

Questions of “why am I doing this narrowly focused research?” and “what is supposed to be my contribution to the field given my relative lack of knowledge?” are just a few of the struggles new scientists face.

For those experiencing the temporary nature of appointment, it is recommended not to focus on the temporary nature of the situation, but instead to enjoy what is good about it while one is there.

Harlan Kredit: no matter what the weather, “Isn’t it a great day to be alive?!”

The purpose of a graduate education in the sciences is to learn how to learn.

When you’re an undergraduate, you don’t know enough to know you don’t know anything. It’s only once you’ve become a graduate student that you learn enough to know that you don’t know anything.
I laughed reading this!

The desire for certainty pushes one to be more conscientious in his work. Yet, sometimes it makes one quite inflexible.

God has been helping Johnny Lin to break his addiction to certain by drawing him instead to rest deeper in fiath.
To marry trust, one must be a widow of certainty.
May our intellectual labors bear spiritual fruits.

References:
(1) Knowledge and loving God: reflections on faith and my graduate experience.
(2) Challenges and opportunities for Christians in science at the beginning of their careers.

Starting as a lowly $10,500-a-year researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, in the late 1960s, he became molecular biology’s first multimillionaire little more than a decade later. His rags-to-riches story jump started a stunning new technology called recombinant DNA, which allowed scientists to take selected genes from one species and splice them into the DNA of another, thereby permanently changing them and their progeny.

If you could only choose one, money or recognition (awards), which one would you choose?
By having money, Herb and his wife Grace could make a US$10 million donation to Yale.
Well, BBC UK writes that Herb suffered much from the jealousies of other academics.